Wednesday, April 24, 2013

"A Foreigner to Worry and a Close Friend of Gaiety"

Let
God tend to the hopeless-looking things. You are a Dominican, a
foreigner to worry and quite a close friend of gaiety…It seems to me
quite entrancing to be able to pile into bed realizing there is someone
as big as God to do all the worrying that has to be done. Worry, you
know, is a kind of reverence given to a situation because of its
magnitude; how small it must be through God’s eyes…You can’t get
everything done in a day, nor can you get any part of it done as well as
it could be, or even as well as you’d like it; so, like the rest of us,
you putter at your job with a normal amount of energy, for a reasonable
length of time, and go to bed with the humilating yet exhilarating
knowlege that you are only a child of God and not God Himself.” -Fr.
Walter Farrell, O.P.

What is a Third Order Carmelite?

A Third Order Discalced Carmelite is a person who responds to an invitation from God to live a life of contemplative prayer within the modern world.

Prayer to Saint Teresa of Avila

Teach us to pray with you with all our hearts:

"I am yours Lord.

I was born for you.

What do you want of me?"

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